Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Bhavesh Arun Karekar & Others Vs MoEF&CC & Others dated 15/04/2024. The matter related to non-compliance of the terms and conditions of Consent to Operate and Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to M/s. Ashapur Meinchem Ltd., village …
Govt asks AP guv to use powers in Scheduled Areas to cancel bauxite lease in Maoist area For the first time, the Centre has urged the governor to use his special powers in Scheduled Areas to cancel bauxite mining leases given in Andhra Pradesh’s Vishakhapatnam district. Linking the issue of …
India's environmental and tribal activists have scored another victory over companies looking to start mining and related projects in the mineral-rich and densely forested regions of the country. Late Friday, a green tribunal has struck down an environmental clearance granted to Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. to mine coal at …
Water experts warn that India’s major rivers, including Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Godavari and Chambal, could soon dry up due to blatant sand and gravel mining being spearheaded by the mining mafia. So blatant are their activities that the water experts warn entire river systems are being destroyed by their …
NEW DELHI: Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan nixed yet another attempt by Vedanta to get Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Odisha that Rahul Gandhi had stood up against, saving the Congress and its scion some blushes. On Tuesday, she ordered that the preliminary nod given by her ministry to the …
MoEF Nixes Co’s Bid To Get Niyamgiri Mines, Shelves Refinery Expansion Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan nixed yet another attempt by Vedanta to get Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Odisha that Rahul Gandhi had stood up against, saving the Congress and its scion some blushes. On Tuesday, she ordered that …
After Kakarapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat, state-owned aluminium major Nalco is looking to set up another nuclear power plant in collaboration with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). An NPCIL-Nalco joint venture is already executing unit 3 and 4 of Kakarapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed to expedite its hearing of Orissa Government's appeal against the Centre's decision to withdraw its environmental clearance to Vedanta group firm Sterlite for its bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. A special forest bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and C K Prasad …
The hills and valleys are as scenic, their tribal inhabitants as abject, the industrial interests threatening them as powerful and rapacious. But, despite considerable mobilisation and the larger numbers of lives facing disruption, the resistance of tribals in Andhra Pradesh seems to have drawn less attention than that of the …
Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Group has offered Rs 17,000 crore ($3.4 billion) to buy the government’s remaining stakes in Hindustan Zinc Ltd and Bharat Aluminium Co, a ministry official said. A panel of bureaucrats from ministries, including law, corporate affairs, finance and mining, met yesterday and decided to seek the …
Hyderabad: The environmental activism of Union Minister Jairam Ramesh appears to have set him on a collision course with his party’s government in Andhra Pradesh. Joining the debate on the proposed bauxite mining in the coastal Andhra region, the Environment Minister made it clear that he would not allow mining …
Bhubaneswar: The total value of minerals produced in Odisha is the highest in the country. The state produced minerals worth Rs 28,287 crore in 2010-11. In term of value of output of minerals, Odisha ranks highest in India in recent years, and its share has been increasing, according to the …
This Monitoring Review Report was commissioned as the second 6-monthly update on Vedanta’s progress in implementing the Recommendations from the original independent strategic sustainability review that Scott Wilson undertook in September 2010. The first review of progress was undertaken in July 2011 and involved visits to the Vedanta Aluminium Limited …
Read executive summary of the updated EIA report for expansion of the Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha. Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan has ordered that the preliminary nod given by the MoEF to the company be held in abeyance. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), Lanjigarh is operating 1 MMTPA …
The State-owned aluminium major NALCO plans to spend Rs 900 crore by next fiscal on nuclear power ventures, for which it had signed a joint-venture agreement with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) in November. As per the plan, the investments will be made on unit 3 and 4 …
The government drew flak from the Opposition in the Legislative Council on Friday for its proposal to permit bauxite mining in the agency areas of Visakhapatnam and for entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with Jindal, a private company through the State Mineral Development Corporation Ltd. Raising the issue in …
The successfully concluded $8.48-billion Cairn-Vedanta deal has come “under cloud” following instances of serious human rights violations, default of payment, environmental damage in its mining and metal projects in India, as pointed by the Internal Security section of the Home Ministry against Vedanta and its group of companies. Following the …
After Nyamgiri forests of Orissa, it is now the turn of north coastal tribal belt of Andhra Pradesh to emerge as a new battleground to stage mass protests against the proposed bauxite mining in the region. The situation has turned volatile with the Maoists entering the scene and stepping up …
Fearing tribals’ ire, a high-power committee, appointed by the MoEF, conducted aerial survey of Jerella and Sapparla divisions in Chintapalli, where large scale bauxite reserves are available, in a helicopter to avoid entering agency area by road. The committee members, along with district collector, Lav Agarwal, chief conservator of forests …
The Telugu Desam has decided to support tribals protesting against bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency area and demanded the Centre to cancel mining leases immediately. The party wrote a letter to the Central Expert Committee, Union ministry of environment and forests, to cancel the mining leases granted to Anrak and …
Bhubaneswar: ASteel and mines minister Raghunath Mohanty on Thursday give a hint in the State Assembly that the state government is considering to bring a motion in the House to ban export of minerals, particularly iron ore and manganese. He said that chief minister Naveen Patnaik has, in a letter …
